<p>My home country does not accept the ACT</p>
<p>But the colleges in the US you are applying to do.</p>
<p>Do you mean that the ACT is not offered in your country?</p>
<p>In the city I live in, no it isn’t.
Plus it’s not for sure that I will end up in the USA
There is a 90 percent possibility if not more that I will stay in my home country which only accepts the SAT</p>
<p>Hmm… seems like a scam is going on.</p>
<p>What’s that supposed to mean?!</p>
<p>okay so I got a reply 5 days ago saying </p>
<p>"We have successfully updated your account to reflect the change that you requested regarding your name.</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>As for your previous registrations and scores, we are unable to go back and change your name on those score sheets as you have alsready tested under the last name: “Sparrow” and this would pose as a security risk. What you will need to do is contact your designated institutions as you have done us, and explain the name discrepancy regarding the score reports you have already sent. This will help the institution in pairing your scores to your file with the correct name. You could also provide these insitutions with the documentation/explanation you have supplied to us. Contact your admissions counselor at your designated institutions for further assistance with your record on the institutions end."</p>
<p>What’s that supposed to mean?!</p>
<p>However, I logged into my account and viewed my unofficial score reports and they had my changed name on them?!</p>
<p>What shall I do?!!</p>
<p>It means:
</p>
<p>That is, provide all of the same information that you sent to CB to the colleges where you are applying, and contact the admissions representative for your country at the college, to see whether they have understood the situation. Stay calm and don’t worry.</p>
<p>They have updated your name on your account. However, they are not willing to change your name in connection with the scores that they will be submitting to colleges. </p>
<p>In the information that you send to the colleges, you could also send a print-out of the unofficial score records, and mention that CB has updated your account to reflect the change in the name that is listed.</p>
<p>but it doesn’t work like that in my country!!!</p>
<p>For my reports to be accepted by my country’s universities, they should be stamped by the Amid East and the my country’s ministry of Foreign Affairs. Both of which will not accept them without my full name them. Especially recently after the turbulent political situation in my country.</p>
<p>I just want to make sure that any further report that I will order will bare that changed name, although I have been told by people who changed their names that any official report will, indeed bare, the account’s name.</p>
<p>I dunno though…</p>
<p>Can you order an official report to be sent to your high school? If so, then you could see the name on it.</p>
<p>I was thinking of that. but will that help my case if the name ends up with the wrong name.</p>
<p>Maybe they will tell me they already sent out reports and stuff</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>This is so messed up o.O :(</p>
<p>If you ask CB to send it to your high school now, you will know how your name appears on the score record. If it has been updated, then your problem has been solved.</p>
<p>If it has not been updated, then you have two options: You can try to see whether you can get the stamps you require, despite the name differences. Or you can re-take the tests–which you may have to do.</p>
<p>Either way, you are better off knowing what name is on the CB score records now, rather than later.</p>
<p>Why should universities in your own Middle Eastern country require a foreign (SAT) test for admission?</p>
<p>The American Curriculum is an international curriculum, accepted by many countries all over the world.</p>
<p>Part of that curriculum is taking the SAT’s</p>
<p>as a matter of fact, the uni’s in my country put A HUGE WEIGHT ON IT.</p>
<p>Besides requesting a new score report like QMech suggested, I don’t think the CB and people on CC can help you anymore.</p>
<p>It’s the matter with your country now. Getting your school and your parents involved to solve the problem is the best bet.</p>
<p>BUT MY UNOFFICIAL REPORTS HAVE MY CHANGED NAME ON THEM</p>
<p>how can they tell me “they can’t go back and change past test reports” when my unofficial reports have my changed name on them?!!?!?!!?!!?!</p>
<p>This is the only thing that gave me hope that they maybe mistaken or something.</p>
<p>Just go and do the test again.</p>
<p>I think you can call each school, explain, and forward the letter. </p>
<p>Your date of birth should match all the documents. That’s what most schools use to identify you anyway. Your name and date of birth. </p>
<p>After you’ve applied, call each school to verify that they have correctly identified your scores. </p>
<p>Don’t do the tests again.</p>
<p>You really cant expect CB to be able to tell from a distance what has been going on here. Its pretty clear that they have decided they cant tell if there was fraud and have punted that decision to each institution. </p>
<p>Try convincing them but also schedule re-test dates.</p>
<p>My kids names did not match to a tee either. I foolishly gave them 3 names and then they have their last name, so their ID does not always match. I don’t think the SAT names have to match the college app names exactly. Where it gets sticky is for passport and visa purposes, but the SAT has nothing to do with this. Don’t most apps ask what other names one goes by? </p>
<p>One of my kids uses Davy Jones Sparrow, Davy Sparrow, David Jones Jack Sparrow, David Jones J Sparrow, David Sparrow on various ids. Some had to be brought into line, with the birth certificate, but not the SATS. I don’t see the problem. The colleges will be able to figure out your name and ID and if there is an issue, your school can send a signed statement to them if they should puzzle over any discrepancy between your test name and your application name. The name you use for your apps had better match what will be issued on your passport/visa, because the school will likely have to send documentation that you are accepted there for you to get a student visa.</p>
<p>As for your home country, that’s an issue you have to resolve with the schools there.</p>